The collaborator of Public Fermin Grodira He has been injured in a charge by the National Police during the protests against Carlos Mazón in Valencia. The journalist covered the demonstration against the management of the Generalitat during the DANA when an officer hit him in the leg with a baton.
“I was in a secluded porch in front of a police barrier. When they advanced, I followed them at a safe and prudent distance. One of the agents, despite the fact that I was wearing an orange armband with the word PRESS in capital letters, a helmet with a video camera and a mobile phone recording in the hands, He hit me with his baton on the right thigh. At that moment he was alone, since the rest of the journalists were on the other side of the police line, but they were able to see and record him,” says Fermín Grodira.
“Shortly before, another police group in a similar situation told me to move. One officer sent me in one direction and another came who wanted to go the other and grabbed me by the helmet, shook my head and pushed forward, to the line. of agents advancing down the street, until I was able to leave,” adds the collaborator of Public.
Fermín Grodira assures that he has also seen other journalists “with identifiable signs of having been beaten with batons and pushed by agents”. These situations, according to him, not only took place “in moments of tension, such as during police charges, but also when the situation was calmer and we followed the police groups from a distance and complied with their orders to move when they shouted so.”
“Even a police officer has fired the flash hider centimeters from a journalist who was taking cover in a corner to force him to move due to the noise of the explosion,” concludes the journalist, whose chronicle of the demonstration can be read here.
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